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WIRE LOOM HBDDLE- No. 347,138. Patented Aug. 10, 1886.

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FREDERICK TAYLOR, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

WIRE LOOM-HEDDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,138, dated August 10, 1886.

Application filed August 26, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK TAYLOR, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Loom-Heddles; and-I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents part of a heddle-frame 'withan-ordinary double wire heddle upon the same having my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 represents upon an enlarged scale so much of the heddle shown in Fig. l as is necessary to illustrate my said improvements. All of the following figures are also upon the same enlarged scale. Fig. 3 represents aside or edge view of the parts shownin Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents a cross-section through the heddle, taken on line a I), looking in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and 6 represent modifications,hereinafter morefully described; and Figs. 7 and 8 represent side views of two spiral loops,which form myimproved heddleeye when placed together, as hereinafter described.

The object of my invention is to produce a wire loomheddle having an eye-loop which shall offer the least possible resistance to the warp-thread passing through it in the operation of weaving; and the invention consists of a wire heddle provided with the usual single or double supporting wire or wires, and having an eye formed according to my invention, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

My said invention is more especially adapted and intended for use in connection with heddles having double supportingwires, (such as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3,) although it may be used in making heddles having only a single supporting-wire (such as shown in Figs.

5 and 6, and hereinafter more fully described) without departing from the principle thereof. To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it more in detail, considering first the wire heddle having double supporting wires, and then the modified form of wire heddle having a single supporting-wire.

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In the drawings, the part marked A represents a port-ion of a loom'heddle frame, and B B the (rJss-bars thereof, to which are applied the heddles O in the usual manner, as shown in Fig. 1. The heddle shown in said Fig. 1, with the exception of the double loop forming its eye 0, is made similar to other wire heddles having double supportingwvires now in common use, being twisted at one end, as shown at 0, also next to the cross-bars B B at d d, and for a short distance at each side of said eyeloop at c e, the parts f f between said twisted portions being left plain, as shown; or, if preferred, they may be twisted the whole distance from the eye to the crossbars. In making said heddle O the eye 0 thereof is first made by bending the wire at the proper points to form the single spiral loops 9 (Shown in Figs. 7 and 8 of the drawings.) Said wire is then doubled, and the loops 9 g fitted together side by side, to form the double spiral loop shown in the other figures of the drawings, after which the twists 0, d, and e are formed, as hereinbefore described. The heddle is then complete and ready for use. The single loops y g are coiled spirally in opposite directions, and in fitting the same together the loop 9 shown in Fig. 7 is placed on top of g, the one shown in Fig. 8,in the positions there represented. Therefore, as will be observed by reference to Fig. 2, the end 9 of loop 9 comes upon the outside of the bottom of the double loop, while the end 9 of the other single loop comes in the middle of said double loop; and as the opposite ends of said single loops are correspondingly arranged at the opposite end of the double loop after the wires have been intertwisted, as represented at c e, a firm and rigid eye-loop is produced, having a clear smooth opening,with no angles or corners in which the warp-thread may become caught, to retard or break the same in the operation of weaving.

By the usual construction the ends of the eye-loop opening where the wires come together to be iutertwisted are V-shaped, said wires being simply bent outward to form the eye, instead of in the form of a loop, asin my improved heddle. The warp-thread in passing through is therefore very liable to be drawn into said Vshaped ends and pinched thereby, so as to retard or even stop the passage of the same through said eye, thus causing frequent breakages in said warp-thread, which is not only a source of considerable annoyance and delay to the operator, but also of unnecessary expense to the manufacturer, all of which, as will at once be seen, is entirely obviated by making the eye-loop of a heddle in the manner hereinbefore described.

Although I prefer in practice to form the heddle having the double loop with double supporting-wires, as hereinbefore stated, it may be formed with only one supporting-wire, f, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and thus considerably decrease the cost of manufacturing the same.

In making the heddle having the single supporting-wire and double eye-loop shown in Figs. 5 and (5 the short ends 0 e at each end of the eye-loop may be fastened by intertwist- .ing the same with the main wire, as shown in Fig. 5, by means of solder, 11, (see Fig. 6,) or in any other convenient manner.

In making the wire heddle having a single supporting-wire and double loop, hereinbefore described, it will be understood that the loop additional to the loop formed on said main supportingwire is made from a short section of wire, and the ends a e, hereinbefore referred to, are the free ends thereof, which are fastened to the main wire at each end of the loop, as aforesaid.

I am aware of the patents granted, respectively, to J. Ashworth, January 29, 1867, No. 61,501, and M. Finkle, August 8, 1865, No.

49,251, forimprovenients in loom-hcddles, and therefore limit my invention to the heddle made according to my invention, as hereinbefore described, and shown in the drawings. 13y reference to the Ashworth patent it will be seen that the eye is made in a very different manner from that of my heddle, the two loops thereof which form said eye being made by bending the wire back upon itself, and twist ing said doubled portion next to the loop thus formed. After the two loops are thus made, they then being passed one through the other in opposite directions, asset forth in said patent, are interlocked or knotted together to fornrthc eye. The heddle shown in the Fin kle patent is unlike myinvention, being made throughout of a single continuous wire, in which is formed the eye by bending said wire at the proper point into the shape of a single oblong spiral loop, similar ta the single loops y 1 of my improved lieddle.

Having described my improvementsin wire loonrheddles, what I claim as new therein and of my invention, and desire to seer. re by Lettors Patent, is-

The improved wire loom-heddle having the eye composed of two single spiral loops of wire placed side by side, as described, and having the wires forming both loops united at the opposite ends of the eye, substantially as specilied.

FREDERICK TAYLOR.

\Vitnesses:

ALBERT A. BARKER, \VA LTER B. Nounsn. 

